Example sentences of "[verb] to be about [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 You should dig a pit a yard deep ; for comfort while digging , this will need to be about a square yard in area .
2 Now the more certain that we want to be about a particular inference , right , the smaller is the significance level .
3 As a rough guide two strands wound together make something approximately like three-ply in thickness and three together are usually reckoned to be about a four-ply. these fine industrial yarns used to be in the ‘ odds and ends ’ bins , but the manufacturers have caught on to the fact that they are popular with machine knitters , so now they can be bought under a brand name .
4 It seemed to be about a young woman , thinking aloud as she went about her home doing her chores .
5 ‘ My houses have to be about the right thing , ’ he told Endill .
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